The evolution vs. intelligent design/creation in the classroom “debate” continues in Texas, as the two sides squared off in the most recent school board meeting.

My only information on the meetings comes from one witness, who as any right-minded individual should be, was there to support science.

I can’t even begin to tell you how upsetting it makes me to know that there are people out there whose life goal is to get evolution removed from classrooms. People who get all of their “science” information from the Discovery Institute, people who believe that 8th grade students are qualified to sort through the science presented to them. Their only goal is to try to discredit evolution, and they’ll do anything to succeed.

It doesn’t matter that they have no science, it only matters that they have a controversy.

Here’s my question to the creationist supporting school boarders: If evolution is removed from the classroom, what will you teach? What “science” will you consider worthy of being in a textbook, in the field of earth science?

The thing is, without evolution, they have no science. The entire foundation of ID and creation is to counter the facts of evolution. If they have no science to try to discredit, they are left with nothing.

If it weren’t for the drastic results that I already know would occur, I’d love to have a social experiment where one school district gets taught science and facts and another gets taught creation. Then, let’s compare the students 20 years later to see who is smart and who is not. Since we don’t have 20 years and countless lives to ruin, I’ll tell you now — science will win 100 percent of the time.

The Intelligent Design backers have nothing. They fake science, they distort truths and the spin the facts. They are the equivalent of the most pathetic politicians on both sides of the aisle. They are fighting for a belief. A belief that no matter how much evidence is shown to them, they will never un-believe. They want to be right more than they are willing to be wrong. That is something that doesn’t exist in the real scientific community.

What the scientific community needs to do is take their top speakers and presenters and put together a documentary. Invite the top creationists to show their evidence, then show the real evidence. Make the whole thing for the layman and include everything that would be needed to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt what the truth is. Then, solicit private donations from those of us that would gladly pay, and put it on network television. Sure, they may try to counter with their own, but the truth will always prevail.

This is getting ridiculous. Science needs to stand up and be proud of itself. Sure, Dawkins and Hitchens and the like write wonderful books, but science and academia needs a spokesman who is likable and accessible to tell the people what they should be believing. That’s all America needs is the right voice to tell them what to believe, and if no one from the sciences is talking, they’ll gladly listen to whoever is.

Scientists need to stand up and get loud. Get mean if you have to. But these people need to be put in their place. It’s not about belief in anything other than the truth.

If a creationist wants to show me some evidence and submit their hypothesis to the scientific method, we’ll all gladly listen. But they won’t. They are poor attempts at bullies and somebody needs to metaphorically slap them upside the head.

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